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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'This is my kind of history: carefully researched but so vivid that you are convinced Lucy Worsley was actually there at the party - or the parsonage.' Antonia Fraser'A refreshingly unique perspective on Austen and her work and a beautifully...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2017-05-18
Format(s) : ePub
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After meeting for the first time on the front lines of World War I, two aspiring writers forge an intense twenty-year friendship and write some of America's greatest novels, giving voice to a "lost generation" shaken by war. Eager to find his way in life and words, John...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2017-03-28
Format(s) : ePub
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Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-11-24
Format(s) : ePub
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Soldier, courtier, author, entertainer, and amateur spy, Thomas Churchyard (c.1529-1604) saw action in most of the principal Tudor theatres of war, was a servant to five monarchs, and had a literary career spanning over half a century during which time he produced over...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-10-27
Format(s) : PDF
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-10-19
Format(s) : ePub
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Exploring the life and times of author Robert Louis Stevenson, The Proper Pirate takes readers on a psychological journey from the writer's religious and constricted upbringing to a life of imagination and wonder culminating in the South Seas island of Samoa. Drawing on...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-09-13
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-09-08
Format(s) : PDF
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The Waugh family has been writing books since the nineteenth century. Evelyn's father, brother and son were all writers and now his grandson has taken up the baton. Based on recollections of his father, Auberon, and on a mine of hitherto unseen documents relating to...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2016-06-16
Format(s) : ePub
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The Brontë story has been written many times but rarely as compellingly as by the Brontës themselves. In this selection of letters and autobiographical fragments we hear the authentic voices of the three novelist sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anne, their brother,...
Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2016-04-21
Format(s) : ePub
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A masterly biography of one of America's most important twentieth century writers, written by acclaimed biographer Hermione Lee. 'The biographer's enthusiasm for her subject illuminates every page' HILARY MANTEL 'Hermione Lee's enthusiasm for this misunderstood writer...
Editeur : Virago
Parution : 2016-04-21
Collection :
Virago Modern Classics
Format(s) : ePub
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Loved Goodbye Christopher Robin? Learn more about the real place that inspired the beloved stories. Delve into the home of the world’s most beloved bear! The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh explores the magical landscapes where Pooh, Christopher Robin, and their...
Editeur : Timber Press
Parution : 2015-10-15
Format(s) : ePub
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"It's a book less on what I did than on what others, mainly my parents, did to me"Taking in a vast gallery of extraordinary characters from Paris' post-war years, Pedigree is an autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - a childhood replete...
Editeur : Maclehose Press
Parution : 2015-09-03
Format(s) : ePub
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An intimate yet frank biography of Gore Vidal, one of the most accomplished, visible and controversial American novelists and cultural figures of the past century. The product of thirty years of friendship and conversation, Jay Parini's biography probes behind the...
Editeur : Little, Brown Book Group
Parution : 2015-08-27
Format(s) : ePub
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The Life of Daniel Defoe examines the entire range of Defoe’s writing in the context of what is known about his life and opinions. Features extended and detailed commentaries on Defoe’s political, religious, moral, and economic journalism, as well as on all of his...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2015-07-29
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of her prose - recollections, reviews and essays from the light-hearted...
Editeur : Two Roads
Parution : 2014-11-06
Format(s) : ePub
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This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of the strangest - autobiographies ever written. After a miserable childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turned his life around at the age of twenty-six. By 1860 the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-09
Format(s) : PDF
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This classic study of the working life of a professional writer is one of the best - and also one of the strangest - autobiographies ever written. After a miserable childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turned his life around at the age of twenty-six. By 1860 the...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-09
Format(s) : ePub
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Agatha Christie’s 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. When Christie finally killed off her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, the year before she herself died, that ‘detestable,...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2014-06-19
Collection :
Brief Histories
Format(s) : ePub
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Paul Johnson recalls, with warmth and affection, his childhood in the Potteries - and a unique industrial landscape that has now gone for everPaul Johnson, the celebrated historian, grew up in Tunstall, one of the six towns around Stoke-on-Trent that made up `the...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2013-10-31
Format(s) : ePub
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An intellectual who did not like intellectuals, a socialist who did not trust the state, a writer of the left who found it easier to forgive writers of the right, a liberal who was against free markets, a Protestant who believed in religion but not in God, a fierce...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2013-10-25
Format(s) : PDF
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